HUFFINGTON POST: Former Vice President Al Gore broke with many of his fellow Democrats Friday and said that the NSA surveillance programs violate the constitution.
“This in my view violates the constitution. The fourth amendment and the first amendment – and the fourth amendment language is crystal clear,” he told The Guardian, which revealed the agency’s phone surveillance and reported on its Internet data-mining. “It is not acceptable to have a secret interpretation of a law that goes far beyond any reasonable reading of either the law or the constitution and then classify as top secret what the actual law is.”
“I quite understand the viewpoint that many have expressed that they are fine with it and they just want to be safe but that is not really the American way,” he added… (more)
